Iloprost in embolic renal failure

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 339-341

  Grenader, Tal ^a   Lifschitz, Meyer ^b   Shavit, Linda ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Cholesterol crystal emboli; Iloprost

Indexed keywords

ATENOLOL; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; ENALAPRIL; FELODIPINE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDRALAZINE; ILOPROST; NIFEDIPINE; OXYCODONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYANOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FAT EMBOLISM; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY ARTERIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEG PAIN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RENAL ARTERY; SKIN DEFECT; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; EMBOLISM, CHOLESTEROL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILOPROST; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 25144452015     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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